Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 338: what you’re looking at

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320 TO CONQUER OR DIE. ‘‘T have heard the fall of the glass which he has broken ‘If he had staid a moment longer upon the balcony, I would have put this musket-ball in his back; but he disap- peared just as my finger was pressing the trigger.”’ Another ran up from the end of the street. ‘*And Landry?’’ some one asked him. ‘‘He is dead, and I have left him in the gutter. ”’ ‘*In faith, ‘tis necessary to wait,’’ said one who appeared to be the chief of the band and who held a naked sword in his hand. Just as Gargonille had quitted him whom they called Landry he had taken his course toward Monsieur de Lou- vois’ hotel. At the corner of the Rue des Lombards he had met a troop of soldiers and had sent them to the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, where his comrade and he supposed that Belle-Rose would go. The police reached the Rue de la Tixéranderie just as Landry fell under the poniard of Belle-Rose; at the cry of the wounded man, the whole troop threw itself upon the fugitive’s track; Landry made a desperate effort to point to them with a gesture the direction which he had fol- lowed, but Belle-Rose was a hundred steps in advance of them, and the reader has seen how he entered Monsieur de Pomereux’s hotel. ‘‘Your bandits are there?’’ said Déroute, turning toward the captain. ‘The street belongs to everybody, but the hotel is mine,’’ said the count, proudly. ‘‘Let me take my pistols, and I will charge all this canaille,’’ said the sergeant. _ Sorties are not made before the siege has begun,’’ said Monsieur de Pomereux, smiling. ‘‘Before fighting we will parley.’’ Déroute shoved his pistols bazk into their belt and re-. turned to the window; concealed behind the blinds, he could see everything without being seen. <A change had taken place in the enemy’s maneuvers; there were no longer but two men before the great door; the others were scattered around the hotel, watching over each issue. “The place is invested,’’ said Déroute, his face turned toward the count, ‘‘must we open fire?’’ ‘‘Eh! no, mordieu! do you not know how to find in your mind other resources than battles?’’ exclaimed the count. Belle-Rose inquired about Gaston. | cComichooks.co